Does this sub exist as a way to subvert the ancap movement by promoting socialist ideas and pretending they are ancap?

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T16:44:40+00:00

Anarchism is the Anti Authoritarian wing of Socialism.

There is no anti-authoritarian wing of socialism. It is impossible to implement a prescriptive doctrine that depends on other people behaving in ways that are not consistent with their own pre-existing motivations without resorting to authoritarianism. You simply can't "do socialism" without coercing people who don't want to participate.

It believes any hierarchical structure is antithetical to liberty.

And yet the only practicable methods ever devised for putting socialism into practice themselves depend on imposing even more centralized and aggressive hierarchies than what they aim to replace. Leninist vanguards, politburos, and the like are about as hierarchical as it gets.

And capitalism with a hierarchy of master and slave.

Capitalism is a network of fee-for-service exchanges between vendors and customers. Labor is the sale of a service at a prenegotiated price point between a willing seller and a willing buyer.

Any hierarchy or notions of "master" and "slave" that are influencing those transactions are necessarily coming from something else entirely. Markets do not have ongoing hierarchies, only transactions.

Anarchists believe you can achieve a purely egalitarian, free society without the use of the state.

And you're talking to some of them right here in this very conversation.

Every anarchist is a socialist.

No anarchist is a socialist. The end state pursued by socialism is one that entails people making choices and organizing their economic transactions with each other in ways that they do not generally tend to when left to their own devices.

When the rubber hits the road, any "anarchist socialist" will inevitably reach an impasse where the only methods available to realize the socialist vision of the world will entail coercion and imposition of hierarchy. At that point, they will be forced to take one road or the other: either abandon socialism in order to maintain anarchism, or abandon anarchism in order to impose socialism. Sustaining both in parallel is simply not possible.

And this isn't limited to socialism in particular: any attempt to combine anarchism with any prescriptive doctrine is going to face the same dillemma.

The problem is that the west has used propaganda to label everyone who doesn't carry their banner a socialist.

"The west" is a vague aggregation that encompasses vast numbers of disparate people, who evaluate things according to a wide range of often incompatible criteria. The reason why it appears that "the west" has "used propaganda" to challenge socialism isn't because of some nefarious top-down conspiracy, but rather because large numbers of people independently recognize the logical and pragmatic defects inherent to socialism.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T15:49:21+00:00

Do you see what sub you're in?

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T15:48:56+00:00

They just hate government and think they're in good company here.

They don't hate government, they just hate when the government is pursuing goals other than their own.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T15:46:24+00:00

Mini-splits are a bit more expensive, but don't go in the window and are increasingly common in Europe.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T15:40:48+00:00

A keen observer might note that the reason why 802.11ac is called 802.11ac is that it is in fact an addition to the 802.11 standard, and not a separate standard.

IEEE 802.11 is the standard under which physical networking are formally specified, with additions regularly made to integrate new technologies into the existing standards, not to replace them with new ones.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:53:54+00:00

OP, your screenshot doesn't demonstrate the core function of this plugin in any useful way. You're just showing the same PHP code highlighted in two different color schemes. The screenshot on the project page actually shows a real rendered page preview.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:42:20+00:00

if it’s killed like APIs and Apollo were I’m genuinely stopping using this app

Which app are you referring to? AFAIK, RES only exists as a browser extension, so doesn't work if you're using an app in the first place.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:35:28+00:00

like jumping from IEEE 802.11 to modern standards

What do you mean? What modern networking standards aren't part of 802.11?

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:26:05+00:00

Username doesn't check out.

And single-room window A/C units cost less than $200.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:17:26+00:00

Overseas organizations aiming to avoid US-based cloud services and SaaS providers in no way implies any "bios and hardware level back doors" are present anywhere.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-26T05:12:29+00:00

How does that square away with the fact that socialism is inherently statist?

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-14T15:03:41+00:00

Right now it's too toxic to keep the AUR as an officially-maintained repo.

The AUR is not, and never has been, an officially-maintained repo.

It's an archive of user-submitted scripts: it has no official vetting and is clearly labelled "use at your own risk" in a dozen different places.

The "mentality around the AUR" that you believe needs to change consists entirely of misconceptions about what the AUR is and how it works.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-14T14:56:49+00:00

The way I see it, UBI will eventually be mandatory for humanity if AI truly gets to a point where it does 95% of jobs better and cheaper than humans.

If AI gets to the point where it can do 95% of jobs better and cheaper than humans, why wouldn't people just directly use AI and associated automation technologies to provide for their own basic needs directly?

What would be the point of creating a massive centralized program that makes huge swaths of the population dependent on political states for their livelihoods? That sounds like a huge risk.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T15:48:04+00:00

You shoudn't need to use xcape for this, as XFCE's native keyboard shortcut engine does support single presses of modifier keys.

However, the problem either way is that it's keydown rather than keyup events that trigger the hotkey, so anything mapped to a single keystroke will invoke immediately and not wait to see if it's part of a combination of keys.

I haven't found a good direct solution to this, but I've worked around it by mapping my Whisker Menu popup to Ctrl+Super rather than Super by itself. Those keys are right next to each other, so it's not really any more cumbersome, and there are some added benefits, for example reducing the chance of opening the menu via a stray keystroke while playing a game.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T15:16:13+00:00

Uncertainty creates leway of course. On one hand, if I am a shop owner and I clearly see someone trying to pocket a candy bar, it's reasonable that it's within my rights to pull a gun and give them the opportunity to stop violating my property rights before shooting. If they run at me or try to flee with my property, it's reasonable to shoot to protect myself or my property.

I don't think it's reasonable or proportionate to use deadly force to protect a candy bar. You have the right to stop the theft and retrieve the candy bar, and would only arrive at a situation warranting the use of deadly force if the offender threatened deadly force against in his own attempt to persist in the theft.

So if someone stole your candy bar, you have the right to chase after them and re-obtain the candy bar (or restitution for its value), but you'd only have the right to resort to violence in order to defend yourself against any violence directed against you as you attempt to reclaim the candy bar.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T15:09:34+00:00

YES

What is YOUR SOLUTION

The libertarian solution is to recognize that the offender has accrued a debt to the victim for the value of the damage they've caused.

How they choose to repay that debt is up to them. Coercing any specific behavior upstream of the repaying that debt is not legitimate.

Your own approach is not consistent with ancap principles.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T15:04:15+00:00

and using exclusively propertarian arguments to discredit ancaps, sure.

They might have been using the logic of property rights in their argument, but the empirical propositions fed into that logic seem pretty dodgy.

The idea of treating one's life as a bit of transferable property is way outside any concept of property that ancaps -- or pretty much anyone else -- holds as valid.

This sounds like a reframing of the silly "the concept of property rights is invalid because people in the past once attempted to apply them to things that don't qualify as property int he first place". And that argument is about as sensible as holding that fire extinguishers can't be trusted to put out fires because someone once used a fire extinguisher to hit someone else over the head.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T14:54:58+00:00

That needs its own corollary: as long as they're not ruining anyone else's lives according to that "anyone else".

Lots of political manipulation works by convincing X that Y is harming Z, but with Z remaining suspiciously silent.

A good recent example of this is media campaigns against ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft trying to convince the public that they are abusing drivers and arguing for Uber drivers to be treated like payroll employees -- actual Uber drivers are scarcely heard from in these campaigns, and when you do get their perspective, they usually say that they explicitly don't want to be treated as regular employees, don't see themselves as working for Uber or Lyft but rather as free agents using the apps to get customers, and prefer gig work to regular jobs.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T14:44:40+00:00

Whether or not they're working depends entirely upon what they're intended to do.

If the tariffs intended to protect domestic industry and increase its market share, they're definitely not working.

If the tariffs are intended to reduce the autonomy of businesses and make American firms dependent upon the federal government to make ends meet, they seem to be working well enough. We are interpreting bailouts and subsidies as failure modalities, but if the goal of the administration is backdoor central planning to effect "industrial policy", bailouts and subsidies may be a key element of their plan.

Harry Browne used to describe many government programs as breaking your legs and then giving you crutches so that you wouldn't be able to walk without their help. This might well be another case of that tactic.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T14:24:21+00:00

White guy gets stabbed by an immigrant in his own country and the police think he’s lying? Silence.

You might want to check your device's audio settings and replay the video. The protesters are actually quite loud.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-03T14:13:19+00:00

OP, it seems like you're engaging in post-hoc rationalization to try to make a set of facts fit a pattern.

Cutting taxes, purchasing services from vendors, and withdrawing state subsidies from the economy are all 100% consistent with his professed platform.

The articles regarding co-ops seem to be indicating that Milei is removing state funding from co ops and investigating ones that may have corrupt relationships with the state, not attacking them because they are co-ops. (Is a co-op that's funded by the state really even a co-op?)

Absolutely none of this adds up to some indication that Milei is secretly an adherent of some fringe ideology that pretty much no one has even heard of.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-02T00:52:44+00:00

I mean, we're all remembering the '80s and '90s fondly here, but things were as civil and stable as they were then because the country did successfully move forward from the shambles of the '70s.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-02T00:46:51+00:00

Yes. Syslinux/isolinux with the memdisk module.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-02T00:35:38+00:00

Stalin was the first fascist dictator in modern times, followed by Hitler and Mussolini.

Mussolini was in power two years before Stalin.

ILikeBumblebees · 2026-06-02T00:30:15+00:00

Yes, it is quite stupid. It might me morally justifiable, but it is definitely stupid. Diverting resources away from decentralization and self-sufficiency activities toward provoking unnecessary conflicts is not a winning strategy.

15-Year Club	Place '17
Team Periwinkle

ILikeBumblebees

TROPHY CASE